Pair charged with using 3-year-old to steal wallet from church

3:50 PM,
Jul. 24, 2013

Allen Hamilton

Written by

Mark Vanderhoff
| The Courier-Journal

Pastor Richard Pearson had just finished choir practice and was about to begin the Sunday church service at Faith Community Church in eastern Louisville June 23 when he walked into his office and saw a woman standing there with his wallet and credit cards in her hand.

"Hello," he recalled saying. "Who are you and why do you have my billfold?"

That led the police to charging the woman, Kimberly Lynn Mills, 26, and her husband, Allen Scott Hamilton, 26, with burglary and unlawful transaction with a minor for allegedly using Mills' 3-year-old daughter to take the wallet off Pearson's desk. ...